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Our Approach to Research: Forming Working Groups
Reuse and Recycling 24 October 2013
While the first Fairphones are in the final stages of production and approaching the assembly period, some of us on the team are already trying to actually “quantify” the potential impact of the Fairphone and engage in many research trajectories. Yes, we know that most of you would like ...
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Fairphone Meets London: Pop-Up Space
Long-Lasting Design 07 October 2013
After a quick two weeks since our Pop-Up Space event in London, we’ve been able to catch our breath and share some outcomes of what we did there – and we made a film! Although we usually have longer blog posts, in this one we’ll be brief with a ...
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Guest Blog: The Restart Project on FP Repairability
Reuse and Recycling 03 October 2013
Editor’s Note: What’s the “repairability” of the first Fairphone? In this guest post, Ugo Valluari, co-founder of The Restart Project, discusses his team’s analysis and teardown of an early prototype. Keep in mind – within the constraints of our first-year funding model, we selected and licensed an existing design ...
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Fairphone Operating System
Long-Lasting Design 20 September 2013
This week, in the midst of our Fairphone Pop-Up Space in London, I’d like to share with you the story and design behind our Android-based Fairphone operating system (OS). It’s a topic that a lot of you are interested in as I’ve been hearing a lot of feedback via ...
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First Fairphone Cost Breakdown
All 12 September 2013
At last! The long-awaited, much-hyped “Cost Breakdown”. Never heard of it? Well, good. We’ve got plenty of information in this blog post to introduce you to this new idea we want to share with you: a detailed cost breakdown of your Fairphone. Our phone launching end of this year ...
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Fairphone Pop-Up Space: London
All 09 September 2013
Will we see you in London next week!? At Fairphone our goal is to open up the systems to discover how our products are made. Lofty goal – but we’re doing it step-by-step when building our own smartphone. So even though our prototype isn’t our finished product, we know that ...
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Production Update: Delivery Timeline
News 05 September 2013
Introduction Time for a big update, guys! In this blog post, I’ll be outlining what we’ve been up to in-office over the summer directly after our pre-order campaign ended June 14, to where we are now, and into the months ahead before the phone will be delivered to our beloved ...
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Social Responsibility: Introducing TAOS Network
Good Working Conditions 16 August 2013
Editor’s Note: At this point in our production process, Fairphone has chosen an independent, third-party social assessment organization to perform an assessment with our factory, A’Hong. In the following blog post, we’ve asked the founder of TAOS to explain their vision for corporate responsibility as this process is undertaken. ...
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What’s in a Life-Cycle Assessment?
Reuse and Recycling 01 August 2013
I suppose some (or most!) of you are concerned about the environmental issues related to the shiny, cool Fairphone-to-be, right? Some of you have already showed specific interest in our carbon, water, or ecological footprint. So I want to take the opportunity to give you an update about what’s ...
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